MMO’s partnership with Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP) for a 16-team tournament finally concluded as the 1988 Mets swept the 2022 Mets in the championship game. The 2022 Mets made a run to the championship as the No. 9 seed and fell to the No. 3-seeded 1988 Mets. The 2022 Mets was piloted by MMO editor and writer James Villani. The 1988 Mets was ran by MMO writer Dilip Sridhar. If you have not...
You certainly know the elite seasons by one pitcher: Seaver 1969, Gooden 1985, and deGrom 2018 — just to name a few. But as we imagine the possibilities of two top-line starters in the future Mets rotation, here’s the standard they have to meet. As a point of reference, the primary criteria taken into account for this list were adjusted ERA (or ERA+), pitching bWAR, and influence on...
On October 27, 1986, the Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox to win their second world championship. They were coming off a dramatic win in Game Six, as recapped here by MMO’s Brian Wright. Most Mets fans are well aware of how things went down on those two October nights in Queens. I am among the lucky, in that I was able to attend both of those games. I’d like to share the emotional...
What more can be said? In books, in films, and in memories, October 25, 1986 is among the greatest days in the history of the universe for Mets fans and among the worst for Red Sox fans (albeit it’s a lot easier for them to take now). What unfolded in the bottom of the 10th inning has been relived and dissected to a tremendous degree. But how did it get there? Here’s a brief recap of...
The 1986 Mets dominated the National League. They won 108 games during the regular season, and seemed destined to steamroll any opponent that stood between them and a championship. The Houston Astros had other ideas. The Mets and Astros clashed in the 1986 NLCS, after Houston won the National League’s western division with a 96-66 record. The Astros, behind the pitching of Mike Scott, gave...
Rarely, if ever, has a team better represented its time and place than the 1986 New York Mets. That is at the heart of a four-part ESPN 30 for 30 documentary produced and directed by Nick Davis and executive produced by Jimmy Kimmel and Sal Iacono, which premiered Tuesday and is available to stream on ESPN+. But there’s so much more in the story of the Big Apple’s most fascinating...
On October 27, 1986, the Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox to win their second world championship. Most Mets fans are well aware of that, so the point here isn’t to recap games six and seven and the play-by-play road to victory. Rather, it’s to take a look at the emotional rollercoaster that defined those games, and provide a forum for others to share their stories. Game Six...
With the Mets struggling in the shortened 2020 season, now may be a good time to look back some happier times for the guys from Flushing. In 1986, it was clear very early in the season that the Mets were the team to beat in the National League East, and perhaps in all of baseball. The Mets roared out of the gate, and had a record of 59-25 at the All Star break. They were beating teams and...
For all the Opening Day re-broadcasts shown by SNY yesterday, one which wasn’t shown, but can be found on YouTube, came in the afterglow of the Mets’ most recent World Series title. Following a pre-game ceremony in which the championship flag was raised and the players, coaches, and personnel received their jewelry, the Mets rung in the new year with a narrow victory over the...
